George P Shultz: 17 books
by George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In a rich and varied career, George P. Shultz has aided presidents, confronted national and international crises, and argued passionately that the United States has a vital stake in promoting democratic values and institutions. In speeches, articles, congressional testimony, and conversations with...
Issues on My Mind
Strategies for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Former Nixon and Reagan cabinet member George Shultz offers his views on how to govern more effectively, get our economy back on track, take advantage of new opportunities in the energy field, combat the use of addictive drugs, apply a strategic overview to diplomacy, and identify necessary steps...
by George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
George P. Shultz recounts a lifetime of experiences in government, business, and academia and describes how those experiences have shaped the way he thinks about the world. In his plainspoken manner, he provides the reader with keys to understanding how he helped bring the nuclear disarmament movement...
Beyond Disruption
Technology's Challenge to Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In Beyond Disruption: Technology's Challenge to Governance, George P. Shultz, Jim Hoagland, and James Timbie present views from some of the country's top experts in the sciences, humanities, and military that scrutinize the rise of post-millennium technologies in today's global society. They contemplate...
by John B. Shoven, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time.
Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—loom...
Conversations about Energy
How the Experts See America's Energy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key...
A Time for Reflection
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
William E Simon-quintessential American figure of the American century: Wall Street wunderkind, treasury secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford, successful entrepreneur, US Olympic Committee president, best-selling author, pioneering philanthropist, and devout Catholic. Simon's insightful and often...
Turmoil and Triumph
Diplomacy, Power, and the Victory of the American Deal
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Turmoil and Triumph isn’t just a memoir—though it is that, too—it’s a thrilling retrospective on the eight tumultuous years that Schultz worked as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Under Schultz’s strong leadership, America braved a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union,...
by Kenneth E. Scott, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to explain the causes of the crisis in understandable...
Nuclear Security
The Problems and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear...
Nuclear Enterprise
High-Consequence Accidents: How to Enhance Safety and Minimize Risks in Nuclear Weapons and Reactors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
A panel of expert contributors offers its views on the risks and rewards of the nuclear enterprise, focusing on issues of safety, regulation, and public perception. Contributors discuss specific experience and issues regarding the technical safety of weapons and power plants, management operations, regulatory measures, and the importance of accurate communication by the media.
Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary
Conference Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.
Deterrence
Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment...
by A. Ross Johnson, George P. Shultz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing from lessons learned during the cold war broadcasting experience, Communicating with the World of Islam suggests the best ways to organize U.S. efforts to communicate with the Islamic world. It examines the impact the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other broadcasting tools had and...
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